U.S. Marine Corps Maj. George Anikow, center, and Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class William Lowry, left, speak with a villager about the lack of water in the village during a census patrol in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2009. Anikow and Lowry are assigned to Delta Company, 2nd Amphibious Assault Battalion, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Pete ThibodeauThe Case Against a Surge in Afghanistan - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
More troops won't solve Afghanistan.
At the heart of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for a major surge in troops is the assumption that we are failing in Afghanistan. But are we really? The United States has had one central objective: to deny Al Qaeda the means to reconstitute, train, and plan major terror attacks. This mission has been largely successful for the past eight years. Al Qaeda is dispersed, on the run, and unable to direct attacks of the kind it planned and executed routinely in the 1990s. Fourteen of the top 20 leaders of the group have been killed by drone attacks. Its funding sources are drying up, and its political appeal is at an all-time low. All this is not an accident but rather a product of the U.S. presence in the region and efforts to disrupt terrorists, track funds, gain intelligence, aid development, help allies, and kill enemies.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
All Is Not Yet Lost in Afghanistan - Nasim Ashraf, Washington Times
The Right Road Out of Afghanistan -- Gwynne Dyer, The Japan Times
Man in the News: Stanley McChrystal -- Daniel Dombey, Financial Times
Counterintuitive counterinsurgency -- Richard Fontaine and John Nagl, L.A. Times
Time for Decisiveness on Afghanistan -- The Atlantic
When generals and presidents collide, the commander in chief wins -- USA Today
Afghanistan: Obama's Unanswered Questions -- CBS News
The real Afghan lessons from Vietnam - Lewis Sorley, Wall Street Journal opinion
What Failure in Afghanistan? -- Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post opinion
Generals and Politics -- Times online
Counterintuitive Counterinsurgency -- Richard Fontaine and John Nagl, Los Angeles Times opinion
The Obama-McChrystal Gap -- Jed Babbin, Human Events
Generals and Politics -- The Times editorial
The pieces are in place, but no one wants an intifada -- Tony Karon, The National
Turkish-Armenian traumas -- Omer Taspinar, Today's Zaman
Why India Fears China -- Jeremy Kahn, Newsweek
Trend of China-India friendship irreversible -- Zhang Yan, The Hindu
After the Crisis? -- Robert Zoellick, Real Clear World
China and the Sickly Dollar -- Philip Bowring, International Herald Tribune
It's Up to China to Avert Dollar Debacle -- Kenneth Rogoff, Globe and Mail
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